Title: SoLID Program at Jefferson Lab

Speaker: Jianping Chen (JLab)

Abstract: Jefferson Lab 12 GeV energy upgrade opens up a new frontier for precision studies of nucleon structure and precision tests of the Standard Model. To fully exploit the potential of the upgrade, a new large acceptance device, SoLID, was proposed and designed to be able to handle very high luminosity. The new capability of SoLID allows the study of the transverse momentum dependent quark distributions of the nucleon in the valence quark region to reach the ultimate precision. The SoLID parity-violating deep-inelastic-scattering experiment will provide a precision test of the Standard Model with an equivalent energy reach comparable to LHC experiments. SoLID also offers a new capability to perform measurements of J/Psi production in the threshold region to study the gluon dynamics of strong QCD. The SoLID physics program will be discussed in details along with the current status of the SoLID project.